Fall 2024

In the world I was born into, Israel was an emotion wrapped in an idea. Simply by existing, the Jewish state was a portal to deliverance, and since I had been carried through that portal at birth, so to speak, …

In heaven, possibly, ideals speak for themselves. But on earth ideals require translation; they require action. If the world were logically ordered, politics would begin with ends—so Plato and Aristotle would insist. But a little experience demonstrates that the ends …

A classic book of social psychology analyzes a flying saucer cult of the 1950s. This small band of Americans believed that on a particular date soon to come, the world would be engulfed by a flood of biblical proportions-but also …

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal Thunder’s Mouth/Nation Books, 2002, 160 pp., $16.50Why Do People Hate America? by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies Icon Books, 2002, 231 pp., $19.99″What We …

If wishes were arguments, the strongest argument for an American war would be the most ambitious-the wish, or prayer, that by deposing Saddam Hussein and occupying Iraq, the United States would install the first democratic regime in the Arab world, …